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Now, here’s today’s agriculture news.

The Lead:

NDP trade critic Tracey Ramsey has written a Parliamentary motion calling for financial protection for fruit and vegetable growers. The motion, which asks the federal government to develop a payment protection program for produce producers by September 2016, comes after the American government removed Canadian producers preferential status under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) in 2014. The protection was removed because similar insurance was not being offered to American growers shipping produce North.

Ramsey made the announcement Thursday at a press conference with NDP Agriculture Critic Ruth Ellen Brosseau, the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association and the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers. iPolitics will have full coverage of the NDP motion later today.

In Canada:

Judges in Toronto have opted to reserve their decision on a request from the Grain Farmers of Ontario to overturn the dismissal of their court case on seed treatment regulations. As Real Agriculture reports, some 200 farmers packed a Toronto court room to hear the judges’ decision and show their support for GFO.

Canadian Pacific CEO Hunter Harrison had some sharp words about the future of fossil fuels, Wednesday. As The Canadian Press reports, Harrison told a J.P. Morgan transportation conference in New York that fossil fuels are “probably dead.” Oil shipments by rail, Harrison said, have dropped significantly since the price collapse.

Internationally:

A group of West Virginia lawmakers say their sudden upset stomachs were not caused by the raw milk that they drank on Friday in celebration of a law loosening restrictions on raw milk sales. The Associated Press has the details.

A new study has found Americans are eating to much processed food. As Vox.com reports, researchers at Tufts University and the University of Sao Paulo analyzed the eating habits of more than 9,000 Americans and concluded that about 58 percent of the average American’s calories come from ultra-processed foods every day.